“Aurora” is a novel about some of the realities of the modern history of our country. The plot is based on the fate of people who are unwitting participants in the tragic events taking place in modern Russia. The heroes of the novel are representatives of our society who suffer, suffer, believe, love... and hope. The novel “Aurora” is about love and the Chechen wars, about the restoration of a research institute during the war years, in the first years after the end of the war. Few people in Russia , one must assume, now remembers what war is like, how disgusting and terrible its face is. War, no matter for what purpose it is waged, is associated with violence, death, and the enrichment of a group of people through the destruction of generations in a country of military operations. In 2012, Kant Ibragimov’s novel “Aurora” turns out to be incredibly relevant. It should be read by all sensible people in Russia in order to more accurately understand what kind of world and whose world we are defending, rejecting extremism and violence in any form, not wanting to follow the lead of people who undermine the stability of our society, exhausted by wars and bloody revolutions. “Aurora” is the literary equivalent of Pablo Picasso’s world-famous painting “Guernica,” which accurately reflects the horror of war and the destruction of previously flourishing cities during aerial carpet bombing.